Because the managerial elites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.
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Some argue that management skills are more practical for modern economic needs than abstract thought.
[O]ur elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management functi…
I would remind you...that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable ap…
Each [ideology], in the oppressive air of conformity which ideologies create, will force public figures to conform or be ruined on the scaffold of ridicule. In…
'The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.'
Education: 'In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.'
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.